Samuel Johnson
Quotations
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” -Samuel Johnson
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“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.” -Samuel Johnson
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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” -Samuel Johnson
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“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.” -Samuel Johnson
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“You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” -Samuel Johnson
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“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The future is purchased by the present.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.” -Samuel Johnson
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“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Exercise is labor without weariness.” -Samuel Johnson
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“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.” -Samuel Johnson
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“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.” -Samuel Johnson
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“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” -Samuel Johnson
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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” -Samuel Johnson
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. – Samuel Johnson
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson
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